Isleworth Film Studios was initially also known as Worton Hall Studios, in operation 1913 until 1928, when the studios were closed.
The former Odeon cinema in Isleworth took on the name Isleworth Studios when it closed in 1957 and was converted to a studio. The studio closed in 2001.

History

1783: Worton Hall, Iselworth is built.

Early 19th century: Worton Hall is extended.

1913: Worton Hall is acquired, together with a nine acre estate, by film producer George Berthold Samuelson. The ground floor rooms become dressing rooms, canteen, wardrobe and other offices; the upper rooms become bedrooms for any staying overnight.

1914: Filming of Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet began in summer 1914 and the studios were officially opened on 1st July.

Samuelson gained publicity by producing a fictitious newsreel during the early years of the 1st World War and over the next few years many silent films were shot here, many based on famous novels such as Little Women. In 1922 the studios, generally known as Isleworth Film Studios, were sold to British Super Films, in which Samuelson retained an interest. However, in 1928 an expensive law suit with the American actress Betty Blythe forced Samuelson to sell Worton Hall to British Screen Productions.

By 1931 the studios were being used by Fidelity Films. Films produced here included Madame Guilottine, with Madeleine Carroll.

In 1934 they were leased by Alexander Korda and in 1936 he produced Things to Come, based on The Shape of Things to Come by H G Wells. Wells wrote the screenplay, Arthur Bliss the music.

From 1936-44 the studios were owned by Criterion Film Productions, and afterwards by British Lion.

They closed in 1952 and were then used for 20 years by the National Coal Board as a Mining Research Centre. Worton Hall survives and has been acquired by Bovis Homes for conversion into flats.

In 1993, part of the building was leased by the Driving Standards Agency and is still used (as of 2011) as the Isleworth driving test centre. Part of the site is used as an industrial estate.

Films produced here include Invader (1936) with Buster Keaton; Under Secret Orders (1937) otherwise called Mademoiselle Docteur, with Erich von Stroheim; The Small Back Room (1949); State Secret (1950) with Douglas Fairbanks Jnr. Shooting of The Third Man began here in 1948 before moving to Shepperton. In 1951, shortly before the studios closed, much of The African Queen was filmed here.

Isleworth Studio (the former Odeon Isleworth), from a sales brochure.
Began in March 1935 as Odeon Isleworth, one of the Odeon Cinemas. The Bauhaus-influenced building has a Germanic style and was designed by George Coles. It closed in 1957, a victim of the rise in popularity of television. The cinema was then gutted and converted to a studio. Whilst being used as Isleworth Studios, the original Odeon sign was visible up until the early 1990s.
Equator Films (now Handmade Films) purchased the studio in 1999 but ultimately sold it. The studios finally ceased operations at the building in 2001 and the auditorium section was taken down the following year. Since 2003, the building has been incorporated into a new block of flats.

Productions shot at Isleworth Studios

Title	Released	Director
Feature Film (4)
The Italian Job	1969	Peter Collinson
Isadora	1968	Karel Reisz
The African Queen	1951	John Huston
The Man Who Could Work Miracles	1936	Lothar Mendes
Interiors

Productions shot at Isleworth Studios

Feature Film (4)